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Conspiracies

2023-06-06 00:53:25.153473+02 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

At this point I don't know what to believe any more, but the first use of the term “conspiracy theory” is much earlier — and more interesting — than historians have thought explains why I couldn't find the term in the NYT letter that the AP linked to, it's in a letter responding to that letter.

This post brought to you by me subsequently going far too deep in trying to chase LLM generated bullshit.

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#Comment Re: Conspiracies made: 2023-06-06 01:36:39.811423+02 by: brainopener [edit history]

Nassim Taleb posted this on a ChatGPT nonsense today.

I don't know if you ever watched Cheers, but I keep thinking of all of these LLM toys as a virtual Cliff Clavin. I mean... it's cool that there's a mechanical pub bull shitter now... but you got to keep that in mind.

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